a lossless continuous single file is also available on Bandcamp but it's like $50
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
link?
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
WTF I coulda sworn it was here:https://diaart.bandcamp.com/releases
maybe I'm confusing it with the download that came with the box (yes I bought it from Dia) which is continuous, but I swear it was up there before
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
How is the box?
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
pretty lavish and well pressed, huge booklet of a lot of stuff that I guess has appeared in other places but was new to me
lots of LONG pauses between "movements" or whatever they are, up into the 2-3 minute range
definitely a better listen as a whole piece but the individual sides also work well as standalones, generally keeping the pauses within the beginning/end of the side
maddeningly, the 8 sides are auto-coupled (sides 1&3 on LP1, 2&4 on LP2, etc, which is even more annoying in practice than it may sound here)
I'm a big fan of Charles Curtis so I was all over this, but the piece definitely has more in common with "The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China" than it does with "The Well Tuned Piano" - it's very minimal, for real
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
keep misreading this thread as "is la monte young" and thinking "no, he's even older than me"
― mark s, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
maddeningly, the 8 sides are auto-coupled (sides 1&3 on LP1, 2&4 on LP2, etc
lol whaaaaat? do they seriously think there are still ppl using those stacking record players?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
haha exactly
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
even tho this is pretty austere as far as composition/variation, the tones of the instruments sound really great and vary considerably between the various parts or movements or whatever they are, someday when I am bored I will count the number of sections in the whole piece but a creative person could probably track them out into something that treated the individual movements as individual tracks
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
do they seriously think there are still ppl using those stacking record players?
Maybe they expect you to play continuously over two turntables?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
The Devil is keeping him young.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
that makes more sense than anything else I've thought of!
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2011/Jun/01/cue_mark_locket.jpg
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
I’m a big Charles Curtis and La Monte fan but I have to draw the line at $50+ per LP for a 4LP box set. I’ve never used the words vinyl and bubble in the same sentence before but I can’t help but think that something is going to pop.
― zacata, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
This is standard LMY pricing though, nothing to do with the "vinyl revival".
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Ha, was just posting the same thing. The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights DVD sells for $89 on his Bandcamp, $307 for a signed copy.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
V true and solid points, that’s the exact reason I’ve never bought any of that stuff.
― zacata, Saturday, 5 February 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
never thought I would see a reissue of The Black Album in my lifetime, let alone on CD. sweet mastering by Dubplates & Mastering (Basic Channel), sounds fantastic.
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
(I have the LP which is flawless, I assume the CD is as well)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
I think of this La Monte Young quote pretty often. pic.twitter.com/furVRoaXMV— Liam Cagney (@LiamCagney) April 4, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:42 (one year ago) link
Can confirm that the The Black Album CD also sounds fantastic - or at least, a significant upgrade on my CDR of an old vinyl rip. Can hear lots more detail in the second side especially, which now sounds pleasingly evil and none more black.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
yeah it was side 2 that really stuck out to me as well, the texture is so rich
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
i'm pretty excited to check it out
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
yeah I got the LP over the weekend and agree it sounds DEEEEP. I don’t know how often I will be in the mood to listen to this (c/f drift study on 78:17) but I was so excited to see official La Monte and I always like supporting Superior Viaduct
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
it sounds WAY better than the 2015 (bootleg?) version. Night and day!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
I have an OG and it sounds better than that!!
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
Is this release downloadable?
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
no, but checking Bandcamp I realize that a few more released are available there now:
https://lamonteyoung.bandcamp.com/music
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
*releases*
LMY and the Theatre of Eternal Music playing shows at the Dream House, May 19 and 21:
MELA is pleased to present two live concert performances of La Monte Young’s Akash Devi Blues for Marian in celebration of Marian’s 83rd birthday and the 180-degree half cycle of La Monte’s 88th birthday. The Theatre of Eternal Music Ensemble will perform this historic and extraordinary piece, one of Young’s earliest works in a new configuration, which will include only the unmetered alap.
The legendary composer and vocalist La Monte Young and the foremost performers of his music—Jung Hee Choi, voice; Jon Catler, just intonation guitar; Hansford Rowe, fretless bass; Ben Neill, trumpet—will improvise in just intonation in the style of Young’s Dorian Blues but without a fixed rhythmic cycle.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
Hahn Rowe!!!! man jealous
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
xp I am not seeing that on the MELA website, can you share your source for this?
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
MELA sent out an email this afternoon. Tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-monte-young-youngs-dorian-blues-by-the-theatre-of-eternal-music-tickets-617988388907
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 15 April 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
thank you!
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 22:10 (one year ago) link
No Zazeela thread, so will post here for now... but maybe we should have one for her?
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/marian-zazeela-artists-space-review-1234699983/
― fpsa, Friday, 15 March 2024 15:46 (two months ago) link
RIP Marian Zazeela.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marian-zazeela-artist-dead-1234701465/
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 30 March 2024 03:02 (two months ago) link
discussion here: RIP Marian Zazeela
maybe we should have one for her
maybe we could rename this thread "la monte young and marian zazeela" ?
― budo jeru, Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:24 (two months ago) link